Variants

A variant is a type of data source that provides the necessary data and information for a worker to perform its actions and calculations. Each variant has different ways to get data; it may come from user inputs, from entities, from tags, from previous workers, etc.

Here is a list of all variants used inside the Everysk platform.

Types of Variants:

String: It receives ordered sequences of characters values which will be sent to the worker.

Number: It receives numeric data values which will be sent to the worker.

Date: It receives a date to be sent to the worker.

Boolean: A boolean data value (True or False) which will be sent to the worker.

Percent: It receives a percent numeric data value which will be sent to the worker

Tag: It receives a string which will be sent to the worker and will be used as a filter tag for data generated by the worker.

Tag Latest: Similar to the tag variant, it receives a string which will be sent to the worker and used as a filter to call a specific stored data.

Tag List: It receives a string which will be sent to the worker and used as a filter to call all the stored data with this tag in parallel.

Symbol: Allows to select a security symbol inside the Everysk platform.

Select: Allows to select only a specific type of data inside the worker.

Select Portfolio: It allows the user to select a specific portfolio from the Portfolio Entity, which will be sent to the worker.

Select Datastore: It allows the user to select a specific datastore from the Datastore Entity, which will be sent to the worker.

Select Report: It allows the user to select a specific report from the Report Entity, which will be sent to the worker.

Select Report Template: It allows the user to select a specific Report Template from the Report Template Entity, which will be sent to the worker.

Select Multiple: Allows to select a list of a specific type of data or entity inside the worker.

Whole Select: Allows the user to select a specific data from a provided list of options.

Select File: Allows to select a specific file from the File Entity, which will be sent to the worker.

Template Text: Allows to concatenate a string with other strings returned by previous workers.

Upstream Data: Receives a specific data returned by previous workers inside the workflow.

JSON: Receives a json object